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THE MUSIC TRADE
THAT Hamilton S. Gordon has leased the sec-
ond floor of the New Reliance Construction
Building, 110-112 West 30th street, for his music
publishing and instrumental business.
THAT "See-Saw" (Gus Edwards Co.), looks as
though it were going to outdo "School Days" in
popular favor.
THAT M. Witmark & Sons have just published
a comic song entitled, "She Could Not Keep Away
from the Ten-Cent Store."
THAT "The Glow Worm," by Paul Linke, the
eminent Berlin composer, set to English- words,
is the latest successful interpolation in "The
Girl Behind the Counter" at the Herald Square
Theatre.
THAT President Watterson, of the Crown
Music Co., who has just returned from the West,
is enthusiastic regarding the business methods of
the McKinley Co., of Chicago.
THAT.Rose & Snyder are getting along famous-
ly with their march success, "Don't Worry."
THAT "I Never Can Forget You, Dear," is being
"boomed" by the Victor Kremer Co.
THAT "Where the Jessamine Is Blooming Far
Away" (Thiebes-Stierlin Co., St. Louis), is a bal-
lad worth remembering.
A PRETTY CUSTOM.
One of the pretty features of the "Friars"
weekly gatherings is the singing of the official
song by the different meetings all over the
country. Promptly at eleven-thirty every Friday
night the song is started in every town in the
United States and Europe where two or more
good brothers are gathered.
Friars Victor Herbert and Charles Emerson
Cooke, the authors, have given to the world a
gem of melody and brotherly love in this little
number, and the good-fellowship which cements
the Friars together is apparent in the chorus,
which runs:
"Here's to the Friars, here's to them all,
Out on the road or here in the hall.
Raise high your glasses with cheer that in-
spires.
We'll drink a deep toast to the boys we love
most,
A toast to all other good Friars."
And the way the good Friars sing this chorus
is a treat, which leads the hearer to believe that
all good fellowship is not dead in the world.
It seems almost unnecessary to add that "The
Friars" are a body of newspaper men and press
agents who are forming branches all over the
country of their parent club, which is located in
New York. The Friars song is published by M.
Witmark & Sons.
We are the Publishers of the most
successful of modern operas
TOM
eJOlMES
By EDWARD GERMAN
CHAPPELL & CO.,
Street
YORK
REVIEW
TRADE NOTES FOR CHICAGO.
Business Has Shown Little Falling Off—J. F.
Bowers' Views in This Connection—New
Kremer Publications—Why Quietness Reigns
at McKinley's—Some Late Numbers.
(Special to The Review.)
Chicago, 111., Nov. 18, 1907.
Chicago music publishers and jobbers say that
business with them has shown little or no falling
off as a result of the financial flurry. Collections
are slow, as they are in all lines, but business
keeps up. Even if we are in for a long period
of trade depression—something which no one
seems to believe—the sale of sheet music may not
suffer if the experience of some of the men in the
local trade is repeated. J. P. Bowers, of Lyon
& Healy, for instance, says that the years 1893-4-5
were among the best the house had ever known in
the line mentioned. He is at a loss to account
for this strange anomaly unless it is that in
times of stress and strain people naturally seek
relief in music, and if compelled to economize
in their outside entertainment will create mu-
sical diversion at home.
Some new Kremer publications by William
Frederick Peters, the composer of "The Mayor
of Tokio," are "Monterey," "I'm Carried Away
With Carrie," and "There's No Time Like Night
Time to Spoon." Rocco Voccothe, well-known bal
lad singer of Chicago, is featuring "Monterey"
with great success.
One is impressed with the somewhat unusual
stillness pervading the offices of the McKinley
Music Co., notwithstanding the fact that num-
bers of the fair sex are employed there. A year
ago William McKinley on his return from the
East approached a young woman who had been
hired in his absence to address envelopes and do
similar work, in order to give her some instruc-
tion regarding her duties. Looking at him, she
waved her hands helplessly. Investigation devel-
oped the fact that the young woman, who was
deaf and dumb, had been recommended by her
sister a former employe. The young woman
showed such ability and applied herself so assidu-
ously to her work that Mr. McKinley sped over
to an institution on the West Side and secured
half a dozen more deaf mutes for his addressing
department.
Things have since gone very
smoothly, he asserts, inasmuch as his new em-
ployes have no shirt waist or millinery chatter
to listen to, or talk about.
Among the recent publications of the McKinley
Co. are "Let Me Hear the Songs My Mother Used
to Sing." The title page is unusually attractive,
being a reproduction of the famous painting,
"Breaking Home Ties." A new instrumental
number published by the same firm is "The Fairy
Queen" Intermezzo, by Percy Wenrich, which is
meeting with considerable success.
J. F. Bowers, of Lyon & Healy, and President
of the Music Publishers' Association of the United
States, returned Friday from New York, where
he went to attend the meeting of the association's
executive committee.
QTJIGLEY'S AMUSING LETTER.
In an amusing letter, dated from the Sherman
House, Chicago, Thos. J. Quigley, of the staff of
Francis, Day & Hunter, writes that Jerome &
Schwartz's new Irish song has made the Windy
City the seat of a veritable cyclone. "I am quite
popular here," says Mr. Quigley, "because al-
though I represent Day I usually manage to stay
up half the night." In a serious vein Mr. Quigley
reports that business is booming and that the
late rate war remains only a bad memory.
"THE GIRLS OF HOLLAND."
(The Snow Man Revised) a Comedy Opera in
Three Acts—Book & Lyrics by Stanislaus
Stange—Music by Reginald De Koven—
Published by Jos. W . Stern & Co.
With the fall of the curtain on the third act
of "The Girls of Holland," on Tuesday night, the
palm for producing the worst musical offering
seen upon Broadway in a decade, passed from
Edward E. Rice, of "King Highball" recollection,
into the already overburdened hands of Sam S.
& Lee Shubert, Inc. Taking the production from
a musical and trade standpoint, pure and sim-
ple, it is hard to imagine why Reginald De
Koven should lend his name to a hotch-potch of
"The Girls of Holland" type, while to the casual
listener it seemed well nigh impossible that a
clever, cultured and usually painstaking musician
could have been guilty of^ a score of this descrip-
tion. If it is that Mr. De Koven is trying to
write down to that grade of music termed "pop-
ular," he must try again, for Tuesday night's of-
fering was neither fish, flesh, fowl nor good red
herring. There is no excuse for Reginald De
Koven being deliberately reminiscent. Even at
a late date he gave to the public in his "Student
King" music which was not only musicianly, but
also highly creditable. In "The Girls of Hol-
land" he seems to have cast around haphazard,
taking strains from everyone. The composer of
"Robin Hood" and "The Highwayman" is handi-
capped, too, by the book of Stanislaus Stange,
which is absolutely devoid of any trace of
humor. The redeeming features of "The Girls
of Holland" are two delightful numbers which
dealers will do well to procure without delay.
The first is "What is it?" which will sell on ac-
count of its reminiscence. The second is "My
All Time Girl," a wonderfully tuneful number,
which will be whistled long after "The Girls
of Holland" has passed to a land where bad
"comedy opera" is forgotten, even if it is not
entirely forgiven.
A POINTER FOR PUBLISHERS.
Consolidation—adding one thing to another—
massing causes together—this is what produces
effects. Solid rocks are made by compacting
particles. That's a statement in geology, but it
goes in salesmanship, too. It's a general rule in
life. It's the law that made the successes of all
the big men we envy—and refuse to imitate.
One of the many productive numbers published
by the Gus. Edwards Music Publishing Co. is
"If You Must Make Eyes at Someone," by Leo.
Edwards, which made an instantaneous success
in "The Gay White Way," at the Casino.
A music store has been opened at No. 816 Wal-
nut street, Reading, Pa., by Prank Kaufman.
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